On 17 Jan 2007, Kent West wrote: > Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup > > installing it on my Etch box, so I thought I'd share my solution to spare > > you the hiccup. I use Firefox version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2. > > > > The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when > > you enter the correct path, /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox, it will complain: > > > > WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path. > > > > This is because it is looking for /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components, > > which does not exist (and which Flash does not apparently need). You can: > > > > 1. Create the directory. The installer will be happy. > > > > or > > > > 2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to > > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins yourself. (I haven't tried this.) > > > > > > I just fed the path "/usr/lib/iceweasel" to the installer program, and > it was happy. > I just install flashplugin-nonfree and it installed the Adobe flash plugin. The result was I could no longer access the BBC TV sites.
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